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How Music Works
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How Music Works

By David Byrne ,

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Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World
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Of Sound Mind

By Nina Kraus ,

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Sound: A Story of Hearing Lost and Found
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Sound

By Bella Bathurst ,

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Herman Klein and the Gramophone
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Herman Klein and the Gramophone

By William R. Moran ,

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Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
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Perfecting Sound Forever

By Greg Milner ,

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Tuning the Human Biofield: Healing with Vibrational Sound Therapy
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Tuning the Human Biofield

By Eileen Day McKusick ,

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The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
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The Audible Past

By Jonathan Sterne ,

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Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
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Aurality

By Ana María Ochoa Gautier ,

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Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music
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Decomposed

By Kyle Devine ,

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Perfect Sound Whatever
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Perfect Sound Whatever

By James Acaster ,

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Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution
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Noise Uprising

By Michael Denning ,

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Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
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Sounds Wild and Broken

By David George Haskell ,

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The Rolling Stone Record Guide
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The Rolling Stone Record Guide

By Dave Marsh ,

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Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting
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Vinyl Junkies

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The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation
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The Knockoff Economy

By Kal Raustiala , Christopher Sprigman ,

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Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Early Years, 1926-1966
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Maximum Volume

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Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZTT
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Adventures in Modern Recording

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Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles
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Atmospheric Noise

By Marina Peterson ,

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DJing For Dummies
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DJing For Dummies

By John Steventon , Phil Morse (editor) ,

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The Secret DJ
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The Secret DJ

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Dance Music Manual
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Dance Music Manual

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Total Records
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Total Records

By Jacques Denis , Jean-Baptiste Mondino , Antoine de Beaupré (editor)

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Andy Warhol
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Andy Warhol

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